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Released yesterday was dav1d 0.8.2 as a fairly significant update to this AV1 CPU-based decoder. For those wondering what this update means for performance, here are some initial benchmarks...

Moving from an RTOS to Linux? (Practical Insights Nobody's Telling You)  EE Times India

Moving from an RTOS to Linux? (Practical Insights Nobody's Telling You)  Eetasia.com

Linux Software Market Comprehensive Insights and Future Growth Potential by Vendors – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Samsung, DELL, Google  NY Market Reports

Linux Software Market Dynamics Forces, New Market Opportunities by Players – Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, Twitter, IBM, RedHat, Samsung, Facebook, Novell, DELL  NY Market Reports

NEED GRUB COMMANDS FOR BOOT FAIL - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The first release candidate of systemd 248 is now available with a number of improvements ranging from a new "system extensions images" concept to the out-of-memory daemon (OOMD) being declared stable...

2021-2025 Linux Computer Market | Analysis, Modeling, Risk Factors, Growth Strategies, Drivers, Dynamics, Forecast and more | COVID19 Impact Analysis | InForGrowth  NeighborWebSJ

Linux 101: What is the SUID permission?  TechRepublic

IBM, Call for Code, and the Linux Foundation announce new open source projects to combat racism  The Next Web

One response to “NASA's Martian helicopter runs Linux”  LinuxGizmos.com

NASA's Martian helicopter runs Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

What is the Vim Editor in linux?  Technotification

One of many interesting and original open-source projects to be started in 2020 was ZLUDA, an open-spurce drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel graphics. ZLUDA - developed independent of Intel and NVIDIA - is built atop Intel's oneAPI Level Zero interface (hence the name, ZLUDA) and allows for unmodified CUDA applications to run on Intel UHD/Xe Graphics hardware with near-native performance. Well, that's the goal at least but with the initial ZLUDA release were a number of support limitations...

The changes within the remote direct memory access (RDMA) subsystem for Linux 5.12 are deemed "quite small" but there is one interesting addition courtesy of Intel...

RDMA Changes For Linux 5.12 Add DMA-BUF Support For Peer-To-Peer Transfers With GPUs  Phoronix

How to Create, Resize and Delete Linux Partitions With Cfdisk  MUO - MakeUseOf

Arch-Based SalientOS + EndeavourOS Take On Clear/Fedora/Ubuntu With The Ryzen 9 5900X  Phoronix

Given the recent release of Arch Linux based EndeavourOS and a Phoronix Premium supporter recently pointing out SalientOS as another interesting Arch-based Linux distribution, here are benchmarks showing how these easy/quick to deploy Arch based operating systems with sane defaults compare to that of Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and Intel's own Clear Linux. This round of February 2021 Linux benchmarking was carried out on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X desktop stemming from premium member feedback.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Linux Edition) Review: A Top-Notch Laptop  WIRED